Karuk Dictionary
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pay this, that (referring to something designated by pointing)
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4715 | revised Nov 07 2014
pay • DET • this, that (referring to something designated by pointing)
Derivatives (14; show derivatives)
Source: WB 1104, p.372
- fâat uum pay. What's this? [Reference: Richardson 1993:15]
Sentence examples (292)
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xás pihnêefich upíip, " púya pay uum váah."
Then Coyote said, "So this is all right!"Source: Mrs. Bennett, "Screech Owl and Coyote" (ALK_14-35) | read full text -
páy kich.
Again.Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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chími ôok pay ikrîishrihi!
Sit down right here!Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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páy kóo paxánthiip,
páy yítha kóo paxánthiip káan u'íihya.
There's an oak tree, there's an oak tree standing there.Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., How Charlie Grew Up (CT-02) | read full text
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fâat kumá'ii peexráratih?
naa ník ôok páy níkrii."
"What are you crying for? I'm here with you."Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., How Charlie Grew Up (CT-02) | read full text
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xas kunpavyíihfuruk,
xas kun'ipêer,
"chu pihnîich pay miváfish."
And then (the ten young men) came in, and they said, "Here, old man, here is your liver!"Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas upíip,
"páy xas íp napakyâat."
And he answered, "Oh! I just had luck with it, that's all!"Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
chavúra páy nanu'ávahkam kun'ithyúruva.
Indeed they dragged her up into the sky.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas páy nanu'ávahkam áachipak tá kun'ithyuruva.
And right up into the middle of the sky they dragged him along, too.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
pahûutva kóo yaas'ára u'íinahaak vaa vúra kóo itíhan kuméekxaram nanitúnviiv vaa pay'ôok kun'írunaatiheesh.
As long as people live, every night my children will pass right here.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
viriva payváaheem vura kári kaan nipiktamkurihvankôoti.
Even now I go back and pan at that place.Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text -
pa'íish ôokmas páy yítha utháaniv.
The meat was lying all around.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
kári xás hinupáy uvíshtaanti sunyithih'ásar.
Because he liked chestnut mush.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
pay hárivurava panipvâaram.
Whenever I go back there.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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chími...
talk about your weaving,
fâatva peevíikti payêem.
Come on, talk about your weaving, whatever you're weaving now.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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naa vúra payêem pufâat náviiktihara.
I'm not weaving anything right now.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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no?
páy kích uum kunipíti,
uvíiktih.
People always say you're weaving.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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xás nixúti,
vaa páy kip Violet ukupíti,
the whole thing,
vaa too sáankuri,
púxay vúra fikríiptihara.
And I thought, "This is the way Violet does it, the whole thing, she puts it in, she doesn't sort them out."Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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naa vúra vaa pay...
I just pull out pahûutva nixúti pay koo.
I just pull out however I think is right.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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víri voom péemuustihaak,
ixúseesh,
mâa vaa pay.
When you look at it, you'll think, “That's it.”Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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chími fâat ayu'âach vúra uum vúra vaa táni'áfish,
mâa vaa pay vaahyâach.
It's because I feel it, [I think] “That's the right one!”Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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naa kupeenish xas,
vaa pay nik koo
And I think, “That one's right.”Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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Hey vaa panimáharati naa káru,
Violet vaa pay...
I copy that too, like Violet ...Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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ooh,
chí pay kanípthiithtih.
“Oh, I'm going to finish it.”Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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naníxvaah níhruuvti,
níxus vaa páy ninísheesh.
I'm using my head, I think, “I'll do like this.”Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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kári xas kunpiip: " chími nu'írunaa, pay uum vúra pihnîichich."
Then they said: "Let's travel; it is some old man."Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (JPH_KIM-08) | read full text -
xas uxus: "
tîi matêe kanpútyiinkachi páy pa'asayâamachak,
vúra uum yâamach pa'as.
Then he thought: "Let me do just a little bit of job on this nice rock, it looks so nice."Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text -
tîi pay kich xas kumatêeshich kuna kanpútyiinkachi."
Let me do a little bit more of job on it."Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text -
víri payváheem vúra kárivarih uvîihiti ikriripanpákurih.
He still dislikes those songs now.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
pa'áraar tupakurîihvahaak ikriripanpákurih márukninay váa xás vúra ukvíiptih,
payváheem váa ukupítih.
Whenever a person sings Amekyaram sweathouse songs in mountain places anywhere, he runs away, he does so now.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
váa vúra payváheem úthvuuyti pirishkaarim'áhasurar,
peekriripanpákurih.
It is still called grizzly-bear drive-away-medicine, those Amekyaram sweathouse songs.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
xás achvúun uppiip:
" naa îin pukinîikyáreeshara, vaa vúra páy kyôomahich nuníshsheesh."
Then Hookbill said: "I am not going to kill you, this is all that I'm going to do to you."Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text -
ée,
if páy ahupyâamachich."
"Oh, what nice wood this is!"Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
hínupay tóo kfúukiraa pakeechxâach.
And he caught hold of the shave-head (widow).Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
hínupay kúkuum úuth tá kunpáathkar kúkuum.
And then they threw the Coyote into the river again.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
kári xás upiip: "
uum vúra vaa páy arara'îin kunxúseentih kíri âapun úyruuhriv.
Then she said: "Someone is causing her sickness.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text -
uum vúra vaa páy takunápur.
Someone is bewitching her.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text -
payêem uum xúrish kana'ákihi."
Give me acorns."Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text -
" xás payêem uum athithxuntápan kana'ákihi."
"Give me hazel nuts this time."Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text -
payêem vúra vaa káan taay u'íifti,
pakáan píins kun'úhthaamhitihirak.
They grow more now where beans are planted.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text -
payêem panámniik tá nivâaram.
I'm going to Orleans now.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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páykuuk path.
Throw it over thereSource: Vina Smith, Lucille Albers, Sentences with verb paradigms (LA-VS-01) | read full text
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koovúra paxvâah pay'ôok uum umnîishtiheesh.
She is going to cook all the heads.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about body parts, etc. (SD-01) | read full text
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pay'ôok xákaan nuchúuphitih.
We are talking right here.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about body parts, etc. (SD-01) | read full text
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pay'ôok araráhi nichuuphítih.
I am talking the Indian language right here.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about speaking Karuk (SD-02) | read full text
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koovúra pa'áraaras pay'ôok nuchúupheesh káru.
All the Indian people here, we are also going to talk.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about speaking Karuk (SD-02) | read full text
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páy uum pa'áraar úmniishti pachikin'úruh.
The man is cooking an egg.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about cooking (SD-03) | read full text
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pay'ôok pa'asiktávaan ukyâati paxuun.
Here the woman is cooking the acorn soup.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about cooking (SD-03) | read full text
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pay'ôok uum pa'áraar ukfúyfuuytih.
Here the person is whistling.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about cooking (SD-03) | read full text
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ararachúupha nuu payêem nuchúuphitih.
We are talking our Indian language now.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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pani'áhootih uum kúnish nimáhat papúufich pay'ôok úkriivtih.
When I was walking, I saw where the deer lives.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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kúnish úkviit-hitih pay'ôok.
He is making his bed right here.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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pani'áhootih pay'ôok nimahat papúufich úkviit-hitih.
When I was walking, I saw where the deer was sleepingSource: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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páy úm ivíshtaantih?
Do you like this?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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fâat i'áamti payêem?
What are you eating now?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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puxích íp neekvúrishrihat máh’iit payêem uum yáv nipmahóonkoonatih.
I was tired this morning, but now I am feeling good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-04) | read full text
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payêem uum yáv nipmahóonkoonatih.
Now I am feeling good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-04) | read full text
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máh’iit íp naxúrihitihat payêem uum punaxúrihitihara.
I was hungry this morning, but now I am not hungry.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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payêem uum punaxúrihitihara.
Now I am not hungry.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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pa'ikxúrikar iyúunkuriheesh pay'ôok.
You are gonna put the pencil there.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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páy papûuvish upshéek.
The bag is heavy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-10) | read full text
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páy papûuvish vúra uum upshéek.
The bag is very heavy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-10) | read full text
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panaa neepshéekti pay pûuvish.
It was the bag that made me heavy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-10) | read full text
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iim payêem tá nupár.
I am biting you now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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iim punupáreeshara payêem.
I am not biting you right now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa vúra ni'áyti payêem.
I am afraid right now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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páykuuk mukrívraam tá ni'áhoo.
I am walking to his house.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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naa vúra payêem nikpuhúthunavish.
I am swimming around.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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yáxa páykuuk!
Look there!Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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yáxa páy!
Look here!Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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uum payêem uum áama u'áveesh.
He is going to eat salmon now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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payêem uxraah nu'áamtih.
We are eating berries now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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páy uum pa'ápsuun vúra uum vâaram.
This snake is the longest snake.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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pay uum ipshûunkinich.
pay cup uum vâaram.
That cup is smaller than this cup. (That cup is short. This cup is tall.)Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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pay uum pananikafih'ásip ipshûunkinich.
My coffee cup is short.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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Xás paxanchíifich payêem tóo mah.
And now the frog sees them.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Xás payêem paxanchíifich tu'ípak.
And now the frog has come back.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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" Pay'ôok uum paxanchíifich."
"Here's the frog."Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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" Pay'ôok uum fâat?"
"What's this here?"Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Kúnish ipshûunkinich pay.
It (the net) is kind of short (to catch the frog).Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Pay'ôok uum xákaan kun'íin pa'avansáxiich káru pachishiih.
In this one here they're both sitting, the boy and dog.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Káru payêem vúra vaa umúustih kári.
And now he's still looking at them.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Xás payêem iish tá kunpáatva.
And now they're taking a bath.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Xás payêem paxanchíifich tóo xus, " Kíri naa káru nipáatveesh."
And now the frog is thinking, "I want to take a bath, too."Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Xás vúra uum payêem tá kunpáatvaheen.
And now they've bathed.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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páy kích kúkuum nipêesh.
I'll say it again.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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páy kích pîipi.
Say it again.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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fâat uum pay?
What is this?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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xáyfaat táay ík papáy i'îinatih!
Stop it!Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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pay'ôok ikrîish!
Sit down!Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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payêem uum mah'íitnihich.
It's morning.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20d) | read full text
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chími ikfúuksip payêem.
It's time to get up!Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20d) | read full text
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pananiishxâar nishxâareesh payêem.
I am going to go fishing with my fishing pole now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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váa vúra punapipshinvárihvutihara, váa vúra ni'áapunmuti payêem.
I'll never forget that, I know it today.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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pananikústaan uum yâamach payêem.
My sister is pretty now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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pananikústaan uum payêem puyâamachhara.
My sister is not pretty now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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pananikústaansa vúra yâamachas payêem.
My sisters are pretty now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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koovúra ithvóon payêem.
We are all eager now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-28) | read full text
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nuu koovúra ithvóon payêem.
We are all eager now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-28) | read full text
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páy uum pananí'av hum?
Is this my food?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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pay uum vaa kunipítih.
They are saying that.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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koovúra kunpavyíishipeesh payêem.
They are all going to go back home now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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páykuuk uum papôos.
The boss is over there.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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yáxa páykuuk káru apxantínihich káru pay apxantínihich káru pay apxantínihich
Look at the white person over there and that white person and that white person.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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pay vúra uum uxutih iyunyúunhitih.
He [that one] thinks you are crazy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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uum vaa páykuuk vúra uum vaa yav.
The one over there, she's good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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papúsihich vúra pu'áamtihara,
xás vúra payêem tá áxaska.
The cat didn't eat, and now she is skinny.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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papúsihich úum púfaat pamu'ífunih payêem.
The cat doesn't have any hair now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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xás payêem vúra itníivka.
And now you are mean.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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páy ni'áveesh.
I am going to eat that.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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payêem xas?
What else?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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oh vúra utátuyishrihti vaa vúra páy paporch.
Oh, she finished sweeping the porch.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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ôok uum vúra taay pa'ás,
púfaat páy uum pa'ípaha.
There are many rocks, but no trees.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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taay vúra pa'ás pay'ôok pi'êep.
There were lots of rocks here.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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káru payêem vúra uum taay pa'ás.
There are already lots of rocks here.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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vúra uum payêem vúra uum taay pa'ás.
There are already lots of rocks here.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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ôok uum vúra taay pa'ás,
payêem.
There are lots of rocks here now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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imáan vúra uum taay pá'ás pay'ôok.
Tomorrow there's going to be lots of rocks here.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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payêem káru vúra uum taay pá'ás ôok.
There are lots of rocks here now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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payêem vúra uum putáay paxuntápan.
There aren't very many acorns here.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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payêem vúra uum ôok taay paxuntápan,
vúra uum púfaat pa'ás.
There are only acorns here now, no rocks.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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pay'ôok uum vúra uum taay paxuntápanheesh.
There's gonna be lots of acorns here.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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páy uum pa'ípaha taay pásaan
This tree has many leaves.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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páy uum vúra uum púfaat pásaan
This [tree] doesn't have any leaves.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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payôok ikrîish!
Sit down here.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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naa payôok nikrîishrih.
I'm already sitting down.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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vaa payôok níkrii.
I'm sitting here.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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payôok koovúra núkrii.
We are all sitting here.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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naa payôok nitháaniv.
I'm lying here.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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naa payêem ni'aasíshriheesh.
I'm going to lie down.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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payôok áasishrih!
Lie down here!Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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naa payôok nihyárih.
I'm standing here.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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vaa páykuuk nipítap.
I know that person over there.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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naa payêem ni'úufithvutih.
I'm swimming.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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páykuuk uum chuphûunish!
Talk to him over there!Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and talking to people (VS-36) | read full text
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fâat uum pay?
What is that?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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mah pay'ôok pasára.
Here's the bread.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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mah páy pasára.
Take some bread.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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páy uum pananítaat.
This is my mother.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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pay uum panani'ávan,
Peter.
This is my husband, Peter.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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xasík nupêenti
" chími payêem nuxúti kíri gravy núkyav."
Then we told her we “Now we would like to make gravy.”Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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kári vúra naa nîinamich,
víri vaa kumá'ii payêem naa uum púfaat neekyâatihara.
I was little then (chuckle), but now I can’t do anything.Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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xás néepeenti, "
chí payôok ihyárihish,
payôok áxak padonkeys."
And he told me, "Stand right here, right here by the two donkeys."Source: Violet Super, Violet's Picture (VSu-02) | read full text
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xás úpiip"
uum vúra páy chu'íveesh.
And he said, "This one is going to die.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
xás payêem uum vúra tu'aráriihkanha,
puhúun vúra íinatihan.
And now he's well, there's nothing wrong with him.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
payêem puhúun íinatihan.
Now there’s nothing wrong with him.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
payêem námpaan vúra pihnîich,
xakinivkihitráhyar káru itroopahárinay tá níkrii.
Now I myself am an old man, I'm 75 years old.Source: William Bright, "Speech to Karuk Tribal Council" (WB-01) | read full text
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kári xás uxus, "
payêem vúra ni'ísheesh pasaamvároo nimahaak."
And he thought, "Now I'll drink when I see a creek.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
xás uxus, "
kíri páy kári vaa ni'ish."
And he thought, "I wish I could drink that."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás ta'ítam páy uníshaheen.
And he did this with it (wadded it up, shown by informant's gestures.)Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
púyava páy pihnêefich ukúphaanik.
So Coyote did that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás papishpíshi uxus, "
tîi páy kan'am.
And the yellowjacket thought, "Let me eat this."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
xás páy pasâam usaamvárakti u'árihroov.
And he went upriver downhill where that flows down from upriver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
yánava páy fâatva utháthriinaa.
He saw something sitting in baskets.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás uxús "
púya páy uum,
payêem uum nayâavaheesh.
And he thought, "There, now I'll get full.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
hinupáy pamu'afupchúrax poo'iinkútih.
There it was his anus burning.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
hinupáy íp pa'axváha mûuk upsívshaapat hinupáy vaa poo'iinkútih.
There it was the pitch he had sealed it with that was burning.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
púyava uxús "
payêem vúra puna'ípaveeshara paxathímtas.
So he thought, "Now I won't eat roasted grasshoppers again.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
"
payêem panimáhaak pasaamvároo paninívaas kúuk nipaathméesh.
"Now when I see a creek, I'll throw my blanket at it.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
kári xás uxús "
vaa pay'ôok xasík íshaha ni'ísheesh."
And he thought, "Here I will drink water."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
"
ooo!"
pa'asiktávaansa kunpiip, "
ooo!
yáxa páykuuk kóo ahupyâamach uthivrúhuthunatih.
"Oh," the women said, "oh, look there, such a pretty stick is floating around.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás kunípeenti pihnêefich "
payêem pukinípkookanpeeshara."
Then they told Coyote, "Now you won't go with us again."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich upíip "
payêem ník vúra ishávaas vaa puneepkuphêeshara."
And Coyote said, "I won't do it again this time, nephew."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás kári ta'ítam "
chími kankúniihki,"
hínupa páy tóo kfíripriv.
And then (he said), "Let me shoot (one)," but he missed.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás upíip "
payêem nivôoruraavish pa'ípaha.
And he said, "Now I'll climb a tree.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás upíip "
payêem vúra puna'itxâarihveesh."
And (Coyote) said, "Now I won't open my eyes."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
púyava páy uum pihnêefich ukúphaanik.
This is what Coyote did.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
"
payêem vúra yiimúsich vúra nikvíripshipreevish,"
uxus.
"Now I'll break into a run just close to it," he thought.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás uxus, "
payêem nanikútrahar nipaathkúriheesh."
And he thought, "Now I'll throw my coat in the water."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás umah,
yána ôok páy kun'íhukvunaatih.
And he saw it, he saw they were flower-dancing right here.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
payêem ík vúra i'asímchaaktiheesh.
This time you must keep your eyes closed.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás kunpíip "
payêem xasík chí kinmáheesh."
And they said, "Now we are going to see them."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
"
naa vúra yíiv ni'aramsîiprivti páy nanuxákararih."
"I come from far away, from the outside."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
ta'ítam "
yée naa hínupa páy uum vúra pihnêefich payûum uthívtaaptih.
So (they said), "Well, that's Coyote who is dancing downriver!Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
vaa páy pihnêefich ukúphaanik pakáruk kahyúras uvâaramutih. kupánakanakana.
Coyote did that, when he went upriver to Klamath Lakes. kupánakanakana.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
xás páy nanu'ávahkam kúuk kinpôonva.
And they were taken to the sky.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás vaa páy uum pihnêefich ukúphaanik.
And Coyote did that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
páy nanu'ávahkam kúuk kunithvíripma.
They ran to the sky.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
kári xás kunpíip "
nuu páy peethívthaaneen itaharâan nupíhiroopithvutih."
And they said, "We dance around this earth ten times."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
víri vaa vúra káan utháaniv payéem.
So he's lying there now.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
xás úpeenvunaa peekvípaansa, "
pay'ôok ikrîish."
And he told the runners, "Sit here."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás úpeenvunaa, "
pay'ôok kiitkúrihtih."
And he told them, "Look in here."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás hínupa páy ára tu'íinish.
And there Mankind came into existence.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
hínu páy uum upíkshaayvutih, putáktahara, pu'araraxus'úmaanhara.
There he was lying, he wasn't a doctor, he wasn't a shaman.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
hínu páy uum ithyáruk tóo kvíriproov, káruma uum kunxútih " tóo síinvar."
There he ran upriverward across-river; the fact was, they thought he had drowned.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
kári xás pa'âapun tutúraayva, yee asayaamach'íshara ôok páy utháaniv.
And when he looked around on the ground, he thought "Well, a pretty rock is lying here!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
kári xás púyava páy pihnêefich ukúphaanik.
So Coyote did that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
kári xás vaa ukupíti payêem, tá pu'áhootihara patur.
So now she does that, the basket-load doesn't walk anymore.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
vaa káan ávansa úkrii,
páykuuk yíiv úkrii,
patuyshipriha'ápapkam.
A man lives there, he lives far off there, on the other side of the mountain.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
kúna vúra páykuuk yíiv áhoon,
payôok xáyfaat i'áhoo,
peempaheepshûunkinich,
kâarim ikupheesh.
But go by the far way yonder, don't travel (by the way) right here, on the short road, you'll do badly.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xás upíti "
tá na'ûuri páykuuk pani'ahoonkôoti yiiv."
And she said, "I'm tired of going by the far way yonder."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
víri payêem panipimúsarahaak víri vaa ník kári nimáheesh peekrívraam káan vúra u'iikráhaak."
Now when I go back to see (my father), then I'll see if the house is standing there."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
chôora nupxákaanpi payêem."
Let's go back together now."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
víri vaa kúth payêem paxuntápan kôokaninay vúra u'íiftih.
That's why the acorns grow everywhere now.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
xás upíip "
mâa páy pa'úruh.
And he said, "Here, these are your eggs.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
hínu páy ikreemyaha'úru póopeenti "
iktûunihi."
There it was eggs of the wind that she told him to take down.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
kári xás upêer
" mâa páy pamikinínaasich."
And he said, "Here's your pets."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text -
vaa máruk páykuuk kinínaasich úkrii.
(My) pet is uphill there.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás mâa páykuuk pakinínaasich iinâak utnúpukva.
And behold, there the pet peeked out from inside (a nest).Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás kunpiip, "
yée naa,
íf páy paxúun amáyav."
And they said, "Say, this is really delicious acorn soup!"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás kunpiip, "
arákaas,
mâa páy pamiváfish."
And they said, "Old man, here! this is your liver.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
mâa páy pamiváfish."
Here, this is your liver!"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás upíip yítha pa'ávansa, "
yee!
páy fâat tá nimah.
And one man said, "Hey, what's this I see?"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
yáxa páy ifunihaxára paniníxuunak."
Look, this long hair is in my acorn soup!"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás upiip, "
hôoy páy tu'aramsîip pa'ifunihaxára."
And he said, "Where did this long hair come from?"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
páy uum pumi'ífunihara."
This isn't your hair."Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
ayu'âach páy pasaamnúpahitihan chí kun'íihrupaavish.
It was because they were going to dance downriver that way the stream flows.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
yiimúsich úhyiivti "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
Some distance (from home) he was shouting, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra úhyiv "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
Again he shouted, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
xás kunthítiv,
sáruk úhyiivtih "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
Then they heard him, he was shouting downhill, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
vúrava kári úhyiivti "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
He was still shouting like that, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
vaa vúra payêem kumáheesh.
You will see him like that now.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
kúna naa,
naa káru paninitúnviiv,
páy nanusúruk kúuk tá nupávyiihma.
But I, I and my children, we are going underground.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
xás vaa vúra payváheem pamupathakhíram káan kunmáheesh.
And nowadays his kneeling-spot can be seen there.Source: Lottie Beck, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-25) | read full text -
xás aseeshtákak poopitvâavnuk mâam páykuuk umah,
tá kunpífukraa mú'arama xákaan.
And when he looked over at aseeshtákak, he saw here right there uphill, she and her child were climbing uphill.Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full text -
páy nanu'ávahkam kúuk kunithvíripma.
They ran to the sky.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
páy nanu'ávahkam kúuk tá kun'íipma papúufich káru pamú'aramah.
Deer and her child have gone to the sky.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás uxús páchishii,
" hôoy íf vaa páy pánukupheesh."
And Dog thought, "We can't do it like this."Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás upíip yuuxmachmahánach,
" naa pay'ôok sinkanánaamich tá ni'aakúrih.
And Lizard said, "I reach in here at the base of my throat.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
hínu páy chí kunchúphiichveesh.
There they were going to chat.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
vaa vúra payêem kumáheesh,
u'úuntih.
You will see it that way now, it is peeling.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
púyava hínu páy uum vírusur,
víri vaa kumá'ii pátaay úmkaanvutih.
So there she was a bear, that's why she gathered (so) much.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
púyava payêem paakráa vaa pa'úuth uxyakâanvutih.
So now the eels are that which he threw out into the river.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
púyava uum túus payêem vúra u'ípakvutih, tupímnaaniharuk.
So now Mockingbird always returns, he comes to spend the summer.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Mockingbird and Swamp Robin" (WB_KL-43) | read full text -
púyava payêem patóo snur,
pa'ípaha tóo kfuukiraa,
tóo sxáxaar.
So now when it thunders, (Lightning) grabs the trees, he rips them open.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text -
víri vaa kumá'ii payêem íshaha,
xás vúra kumá'ii úmsiipti aah.
For that reason it's water now, that's why it puts out fire.Source: Mamie Offield, "Victory Over Fire" (WB_KL-45) | read full text -
kári xás upiip, " púya, payêem ík vôohara mûuk ivúreesh, papay'ôok tu'íhithunahaak nunúthvaaykam."
And (one) said, "Say, this time we must jab him with a digging stick when he dances around here in front of us."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
xás kunpiip, "
xâatik payêem ikyávaan ka'íru."
And they said, "Let there be priestesses too, this time."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, "
vaa páy hínupa uum pookupítiheesh."
And they said, "That's the way (Mankind) will do it."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
xás ikxuraráhaan poopkêevish páy nanu'ávahkam atayrámkaam
Then Evening Star was transformed into a big star in the sky.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
kári xás páy nanu'ávahkam u'ípahoo,
páy nanu'ávahkam ukâakamhitih.
So he went on to the sky, he was a little ways upriver in the sky.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
chavúra páy peethívthaaneen thaanêen kunpiruvápiroopithva.
Finally they went all around this world.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
páy peethívthaaneen thaanêen nipthivrúhiroopithvutih.
I float around and around this world.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás vaa ukúphaanik páy nanu'ávahkam veekxavnamíchmiif.
And páy nanu'ávahkam veekxavnamíchmiif (name of an ikxaréeyav, probably "black little-wolf of the sky") did this.Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text -
kári xás yítha niinamichtâapas xás upiip, "
chími nupahavíshkaanvi páy nanu'ávahkam."
Then the littlest one said, "Let's hunt in the sky!"Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text -
káan ník kunpihmáriroopithva,
páy nanu'ávahkam.
They ran around there in the sky.Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text -
vaa kumá'ii payêem áraar kun'áraarahitih.
That's why people are living now.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text -
hínu páy kunimuskíranik,
poopvakirîihvutih.
They had admired him, when he was dancing in front.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás pachánchaaf páy únish,
pachánchaaf utaxyásur.
So she did like this to the foam, she separated the foam with her hands.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
axmáy kúnish pay'ôok fâat upmahóonkoon.
Suddenly he sort of felt something right here (on his body).Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
xás upiip, "
puyávhara páykuuk.
And she said, "That (woman) over there is no good.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
áraar tóo hvaníchviichva páykuuk,
puyávhara.
That one teases (euphemistic for "bites") people, she's no good.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
hínu páy vúra if.
Sure enough, it was true.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
kári xás upéer, "
páy húm mi'ífunih."
And he said, "Is this your hair?"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
" páy uum pakumá'ii axvâak ukúheesh.
"This one is so that (a person) will have a headache.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
páy uum pakumá'ii pavishváan ukúheesh."
This one will give him a stomach-ache."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
xás payêem vaa vúra mukun'íthvuy rúup.
And now (his descendants') name is Rube.Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text -
hínupa páy uum vaa ukupavêenahiti atahári.
There (the doctor) was doing that mischief all the time.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Quack Doctor" (WB_KL-67) | read full text -
paxúrish tóo krav,
páykuuk ása múuk.
They ground the shelled acorns with that stone over there (pointing to a pestle).Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
púyava vúra páy kóomahich.
That's all.Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text -
púyava páy uum papirish'ánav kunkupeekyâahitih.
That’s how they made plant medicine.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweating Doctor" (WB_KL-81) | read full text -
payêem uum tá koo,
tá púvaa kinkupítihara.
Now that's all over, we can't do that.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
payêem uum símsiim mûuk kunvúutvanaatih.
Now they cut them with a knife.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
payêem uum tá kóo patur,
chishíi mûuk uum tah.
Now the use of burden baskets is all gone, it is with horses now.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
vúra páy nanuxákarari kích uum vaa kunkupítih.
Only ones outside of our country did that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Tattoos" (WB_KL-87) | read full text -
pamuyeenipaxvúhich Roberta payêem mú'iipma.
Today is her little girl Roberta's birthday.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Birthday Party" (WB_KL-89) | read full text -
víri peenvári payêem upikyâatih.
Ben Wilder is fixing it now.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Blow-out" (WB_KL-91) | read full text -
púyava panipkárahaak payêem káruk kúna ni'árihroovish, niptakníhareesh.
When I go back across-river now, I'll go upriver, I'll go drive back.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Blow-out" (WB_KL-91) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra víri payêem áxak pa'ávansa.
Now again there are two men.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
víri payêem kuyraak tah, pa'ávansa.
Now by this time there are three men.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás payêem áxak tá kunsaam, pakun'iruvêehriv.
And now two remain standing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
payêem asiktávaan peehyárihan, úksuupkutih pa'ípaha.
Now a woman is the one standing, she is pointing at the tree.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
payêem asiktávaan peehyárihan.
Now a woman is the one standing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
víri payêem áxak pa'ávansas.
There are two men now.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás payêem áxak pa'ávansa vúra káan mupîimach kun'iruvêehriv.
Now two men are standing there next to her.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra vaa káan uhyárih, payêem áxak pa'ávansa mupîimach kun'iruvêehriv.
Again she is standing there like that, now two men are standing next to her.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás pa'ávansa vaa vúra úkviipti, kúnish yiimúsich payêem.
The man is running like that, sort of far away now.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás payêem áxak pa'ávansa kun'iruvêehrim mupîimach.
Now two men are standing next to her.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
payôok ávansa vuraakírak uvôoruraatih, úmkaanvutih.
Here a man is climbing on a ladder, he is picking apples.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
payôok kuyráak axíich kun'iruvêehriv.
Here three children are standing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
payôok áxak pa'ápsuun, kúnish chími kuníshkaaksipreevish.
Here are two snakes, they are sort of going to strike (lit., jump).Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
páy uum úuth yúrasak.
This is out at the ocean.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
payôok yurástiim kunifyúkiichvutih pa'ávansa káru payeeripáxvuh.
Here the man and the girl are taking a walk on the seashore.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
páy uum pichas'ípaha uvêehrimva, xás simsímtas utaaspáthahitih.
These peach trees are standing, and there is a wire fence around.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
páy uum úhthaam, koonmúrax.
This is a garden, nothing but corn.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
páy uum tishrámkaam, xás utuyshíiprinahiti yiiv.
This is a big valley, and there are mountains rising far away.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
páy uum tiik.
These are hands.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
kúna vúra payêem ápapkam asiktávaan yítha.
But now one woman is on one side.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
payêem uum pa'asiktávaan ôokukam.
Now the woman is on this side.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
púya vaa pay.
And that's the end of it.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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payêem vúra hôoyva u'aramsîiprivtih pu'aapunmuti uxúti kumâam vúra upíip poo'aramsîiprivtih.
He doesn't even know where it comes from, he was thinking it just came from up in the hill there.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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